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| Thread ID: 35439 | 2003-07-13 00:04:00 | CD- Rom not detected in BIOS | flying_green_leprachaun (1767) | Press F1 |
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| 159228 | 2003-07-16 00:42:00 | no Joy on secondary IDE jumpered Slave however jumperd "CS" <whatever that is> I get This, please forgive the crappy photo skills (homepages.visp.co.nz) Yay. Now to test a Bootable CD in my newly discovered CD... Oh great guru Graham, I thank thee ;-) |
flying_green_leprachaun (1767) | ||
| 159229 | 2003-07-16 01:07:00 | Hmmm, no boot :-/ More testing tonight <sigh> |
flying_green_leprachaun (1767) | ||
| 159230 | 2003-07-16 03:27:00 | Interesting . I've been playing with a PC3000 (P166, 2110 MB Quantum --similar . I wonder if that's a CS too) . It wouldn't boot from a CD either . I've wondered if it's too old a CD drive because the BIOS allows it as an option . As well, after booting from a floppy to install mandrake 9 . 0, it has stopped recognising the Mandrake CD . It will read from other CDs . :-( I've just got the new APC magazine . It has Debian Linux 3 . 0 on the CDs . That has some floppy images, and RAWRITE2 to write them to floppies . The "SRM" one is quite clever . It boots a cutdown Linux, which gives you a menu, one of the options is to boot from a CD . That is going to be useful . CS = Cable Select . It has one wire cut in the cable, so that one drive sees the line, and the other doesn't . The one with the wire is master, the other is Slave . Or the other way around . :D Sometimes the cable is installed the centre connector to the motherboard . It should be marked for the master/slave ends . If it's not, use a feltpen for the future . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 159231 | 2003-07-16 11:43:00 | well My CD drive is pretty new . So . . . not much new info im afraid . My skill with Linux being poor to none (actually the reason I aquired this machine) I'll look thru the CD's I have, as for no good reason I downloaded several flavours of linux (I'll boot on my main machine in Knoppix & see what I can see about these "useful" boot floppies . fingers crossed ;-) fgl |
flying_green_leprachaun (1767) | ||
| 159232 | 2003-07-17 05:55:00 | All Linux distributions allow for making boot floppies to start the installation . RedHat actually give you a batch file on the CD which you run, which uses a DOs programme to load the installation kernel . Debian is the only one I've come across with this SRM image file, which I suspect would boot any bootable CD . Look (with DOS/Windows) around the first CD of any distibution . You'' find a DOSUTILS directory, and an IMAGES one with the image files . Rawrite works well . . . but always scandisk/surface scan any floppies you are going to use . It requires perfect floppies, and there is no error check9ing in the DOS write code . You just get a floppy which won't boot . Sometimes you get an "Error 10" which indicates a bad floppy . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 159233 | 2003-07-25 06:46:00 | ok, even tho its the first week back, ive been slugging away for 30 mins to an hour a night . No luck, I cant seem to get the beast to boot . Any Pointers to acquiring a Linux distro on a floppy So I can test under a different operating system |
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